The American Express Platinum is the original premium travel credit card. Not to be outdone by increasingly stiff competition, recent additions and upgrades to Platinum membership offer amazing value to the right travelers.

We expect to see cosplay based on video games and anime, but it would be so good if more folks took the time to branch a little further out and take inspiration from other types of stuff. Like 1993's near-perfect Dazed and Confused.

With all of the games that 2017 has offered up so far, 2016’s Battlefield 1 continues to give me new stuff to play. The third DLC pack, titled “Turning Tides,” is being split into two releases. The second half is slated for a January 2018 release window, but the first half came out this week and features two new maps.…

My daughter is seven, and a few weeks ago her class spent the week choosing a subject to “investigate” (basically write reports on). The teacher might have been hoping they chose something like “nature”, or “factories”, or “history”, but the room of seven-year-old kids did the seven-year-old thing and chose “Pokémon”.

The Alliance Alive is coming to the 3DS on March 27. If you haven’t heard it’s the spiritual successor to Legend of Legacy, a 2015 JRPG by former Square Enix designers many of us wished we had liked more. The Alliance Alive will hopefully fix many of that game’s flaws.

The Division’s latest global event changes the rules yet again for Ubisoft’s shooter. In Strike, which runs for five more days, a downed enemy drops an exploding grenade that hurts nearby enemies. A more advanced Strike setting applies similar detonation chain reactions to players who take lots of damage. A fun tweak!

“Report him,” an Overwatch player said over team chat last week, referencing a Twitch streamer who goes by Stevooo. It was right after Stevooo hastily locked down the hero Symmetra. In text, the player then politely asked all 12 of the match’s players to report Stevooo “for poor teamwork.” Another player responded:…

Android: In a few short months, HQ Trivia has gone from a cool new app to a full-fledged phenomenon, pulling in hundreds of thousands of players multiple times per day for the chance to win some cash by answering live trivia questions. Despite all that success you still can’t play without an iOS device, but thankfully…

Gang Beasts, the slapstick fighting game I once watched take over an entire festival, is out of Early Access. In it, you and three friends play as floppy, grabby little dudes made of jello and fury. Every encounter is a physical comedy sketch waiting to happen. Play it so you can challenge me, the Kotaku Gang Beasts…

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is getting invaded by Hollywood’s decades-old slayer of Aliens, Predator, starting tomorrow, December 14, and running through the beginning of January. And you thought the politics of the game were complicated already.

Last week recurring donation platform Patreon announced a change to its payments structure from an intuitive, once-a-month setup to a convoluted one that may as well have relied on used car salesman math. Creators and patrons alike made their displeasure known, loudly. Today the company’s CEO Jack Conte announced…

Switch owners are sharing all sorts of hilarious clips of the new Champions’ Ballad DLC on social media through the built-in video capture feature. As always, there are some kick ass Breath of the Wild moments, alternative shrine solutions, and a bevy of Hyrule hijinks.

When the Nintendo Switch was revealed last year, one of the most significant observations was how much the Charging Grip with a pair of Joy-Cons attached looked like a robot dog. Hyperkin’s Pupper Switch controller attachment follows that line of thinking to its adorable conclusion.